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Thanks for the memories!

Absolutely the worst movie.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

If this movie were my dream, I would say that it is absolutely crazy and I wouldn't want to dream this again. Seems like this movie has a lot of story lines and I would like to say that too much. One moment I'm trying to understand one scene, but it's quite difficult because there are more than one story lines in one scene. Everything would be fine if those story lines were very clear, but they weren't. Actually, some scenes seemed silly for me. I love mind blowing movies, but this one... Yes, it is mind blowing, but I can't say that I liked it. I think it is too far from reality. Yes, this movie helped for Johnny Depp, helped to grow up like an actor, helped for his career path, but only he can say why and how, because I can't understand. Axel (Johnny Depp) was very passive character. He kept a close watch on everything. This movie balance between reality and fantasy. Personally, I prefer reality... By the way, some scenes looked unnecessary. Plot is too wide. Of course, this is my opinion. Watch this movie and make your own decision.

I don't think any current player has put his personal stamp on more quirky characters than Johnny Depp. Whether it's Edward Scissorhands or Ed Wood, Depp worked hard to get away from the teen idol image that he could have been plagued with his whole life from 21 Jump Street. There's a lot besides Scissorhands and Wood including his most popular character of Captain Jack Sparrow. But in Arizona Dream I think Depp let quirkiness for quirkiness's sake takeover this surreal project. Johnny plays a young and contented kid who works for the Department of fish and game who left his Arizona roots after his parents were killed in a car crash in an automobile driven by his uncle. The uncle is played by Jerry Lewis who got out without a scratch. Depp's feelings about his uncle are ambivalent, his uncle was a beloved figure yet he also blames him for the crash.He fled to New York where he took the job tagging fish, but comes back to Arizona ostensibly for his uncle's wedding. In reality Lewis wants Depp to work for him as a Cadillac dealer along with Vincent Gallo who is also like a surrogate son.Pretty soon Depp is also involved with a mother/daughter pair of quirky sexual piranhas in Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor. When Gallo joins in it gets truly surreal and it ends badly for one of them.If there are some life lessons to be learned in Arizona Dreams as some found, I missed them all together. Some good talent, some interesting performances, but the film as a total package missed the mark for me.

This movie is kind of like across between watching a foreign film, one made in a culture completely alien to your own, and watching someone else's dreams.It is such an bizarre film that I doubt some people would even be able to get through it. I myself had to take it in two parts. But many parts of it are strangely beautiful, and there are a few moments in the latter half of the film of astonishing power.Further more, Kusturica's imagery is absolutely stunning. From a shot of Axel in a red rain coat looking out over the sea near the beginning to one of him lying down with a litter of abandoned puppies in a empty shop at the end, these will stay with you.And of course Kusturica couldn't have a better subject than Depp. He was going on thirty when this came out, but he's has never seemed more innocent. To be honest, its a flawless performance. I don't hand that out a lot, but, in a deeply flawed movie, he's perfect. He never once lets us out of Axel's dreamy, strange world. There's no "winking at the camera" no matter how much it may love him. He gives the movie an emotional center.Its a film that some people will hate, a few will love, and most will simply be perplexed by. Personally, I think you should watch it, not necessarily because you'll like it, but to have an opinion on it.

It's weird going from something as dense and epic in scope as director Emir Kusturica's "Underground", to the fairy tale tragic romance of "Arizona Dream". Weirder still is the cast of Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor, and Vincent Gallo.The word "dream" comes up at least a dozen times in this movie, characters recounting dreams, or the film seamlessly showing them on screen, and appropriately it begins with a ten minute dream sequence(You only know it's a dream sequence because you're told it is afterwards), of an Eskimo in the snowy wilderness, catching a strange fish with both eyes on the same side, the Eskimo later becomes sick and is nursed back to health by his wife. From there we meet the dreamer Depp, who tags fish in New York, a job he loves because, "Most people think I count fish, but I don't. I look at them. I look at their souls and read their dreams and then I let them into my dreams." Then aspiring actor cousin Vinccent Gallo shows up, and asks Depp to come back to Arizona with him for his Uncle Jerry Lewis's wedding. Depp goes back and accepts a job selling Cadillacs, his uncles dream for them, until he meets an eccentric mother/daughter pair, the suicidal turtle obsessed accordion playing Lili Taylor and her vivacious, flighty, sexually aggressive mother, the latter Depp becomes immediately enamored with. Depp and Dunaway begin a very matter of fact and all consuming relationship (he leaves his job and uncles house and refuses to leave). After hearing of Dunaway's dreams to fly as a young girl, Depp decides and spends most of the movie, attempting to build her a flying machine. Meanwhile, Lili Taylor is sabotaging the machine, and Vincent Gallo is busy practicing his acting chops (his recreation of the crop duster scene from North By Northwest is one of the best all time comedy moments anywhere).All good performances, Gallo and Taylor, outshining the others though. The writing is also really good, mostly voice over by Depp, it definitely has a Jean Piere Jeaunut vibe (all the little details and phrases) "My dad always said that work was like a hat you put on your head. And even if you didn't have pants , you didn't have to walk down the street ashamed of your ass as long as you had a hat... " or " what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference." The latter quote sums of the naiveté of the main character and the flaw that makes the tragedy. Depps relationships are passionate, sincere, but essentially child like, he doesn't know what to name how he fells about Dunaway so it must be "love". While Dunaway and her daughter are more two halves of the same person, stuck in an isolated country house, both with half the maturity and vitality the other needs.For the most part the movie is all comic smiles, and surreal shots of fish flying in the sky at random, but towards the end, the film takes somber tones, as the dream/relationships end.Not as dense and surreal as I had expected, but it does capture accurately the magical sensation of first love, especially with someone significantly older (without stepping on the toes of similar films like Harold And Maud or focusing too heavily on taboo).There were a few moments of emotional disconnect where the characters actions make little if any literal sense (the Russian roulette scene), but do give a greater sense of the contradictory emotions which almost all of the characters deal with, except Gallo, whose clearly just there for fun.Arizona Dream caught me off guard, the political allegory of Underground is replaced here with a very internal story of dreamy sensations, fleeting passions, conflicting dreams, conflicting loves, growing up, and magical fish. It's not great, but I definitely connected for personal reasons. If you liked Amelie, or Emir Kusturica, or any of the actors mentioned it's worth checking out.